Joel Hodgson - Comedian, Actor

Joel Hodgson started his comedy career while at Bethel College in Minneapolis Minnesota, opening for Christian rock bands. He then moved to Los Angeles and performed stand-up in comedy clubs across the country, becoming a regular performer on "Late Night with David Letterman", "Saturday Night Live", and selected to be on "HBO’s Eighth Young Comedians Special". After talking a hiatus from stand-up and moving back to Minneapolis, Joel created "MST3K" which he also hosted for five seasons. Joel has written several movies, including Disney’s "Honey We Shrunk Ourselves" with Nell Scovell. Over the last ten years, Joel has been a consultant with his brother, studio artist and designer Jim Hodgson working on projects as diverse as ride theme-ing "The Beatles Yellow Submarine" (Sony), magic consultants for "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch"(ABC) and Penn and Tellers "Sin City Spectacular"(FOX), supervising producers for the live event "Robot Wars" and "Everything You Need to Know" (Discovery). Creative consulting on the game shows "You Don’t Know Jack"(ABC) and "Smush" (USA) as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC). Joel sporadically appears in the long running play "Girly Magazine Party" as well as Frank Conniff’s "Cartoon Dump".